The Verdict Is In: End Congressional Perks

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Three-day workweeks. A full pension. Retirement benefits. Gym memberships. Car service. Free flights to anywhere in the world and travel allowances worth thousands of dollars…

With so many Americans struggling to just find a job, isn't time we put an end to Congressional perks like these?

That's the question we put to you just a few short weeks ago. And we're happy to say the response has been overwhelming.

We've been inundated with comments and responses. Here's just a small sampling:

"Throw them out… all of them… anyone of them who suckled at the teat of American taxpayers."

"They need to lead by example and make sacrifices like the average American and be reviewed on their accomplishments. If they truly work for the American people they must apply more time and effort into their job in order to receive that compensation."

"Their actions have diminished our retirement savings such that if we live more than 6 years we will be impoverished. Maybe if they feel what other Americans must feel like, they could revert to "service," not wealth as their motivator."

"They should be thrown in jail."

So far, 8,746 readers (99% of you) have voted to end Congressional perks while 78 readers – presumably Congressmen – voted against the initiative.

This is precisely the message we want to send to Congress – but we're not done yet. We need as many votes as possible. And if you haven't voted yet, there's still time.

The more votes we have, the better chance of getting our voices heard.
So forward this information to your friends, and share it on Facebook and Twitter – anything you can do to get the word out and send Congress a message.

It is time for us to really vote these people out if they continue to steal our Social Security money by moving it out of its funding account and choosing to spend it on things that please them when it is not their money. Their use of airplanes to fly back to California every week and to go on vacations like Oama does is outrageous. He does not even have to ask for funds to go on vacations that cost us millions of dollars while he claims he is putting together a jobs saving program that probably will go by the wayside just like his other programs have hit the dirt.

If they will not pass legislation to stop giving themselves free retirement, expensive vacations at our expense, free use of planes, chauffer driven cars, etc. they need to go back into civilian lives.

If the Press and other news media did their job in exposing every member of Congress by printing their name, their perks, and ways in which they have abused their office, it would go a long way toward voting them out of office. Too many voters think their Congressman-woman is not the problem.

Unfortunately, much the news media itself is tightly concentrated and controlled by a half dozen companies which fail to report the abuses, and manipulate the politicians for their own benefit.

Besides talking about it, is their anything citizens can do to stop perks for members of congress? Surely with our form of government their is a way for the citizens to control what congress does. Their has to be a law that tells citizens we control how congress spends our money. Congress should not be in control of spending money on themselves. Their benefits have to be stopped.

There is a model in place and it should be followed. The model is the Miltary system…our true heros of this United States. Lifer in Congress should get half pay for his/her pension like the serviceman and use the VA for medical. If it good enough for our true heros and should be good enough for the rich and pampered spoiled members of congress..if not they can buy their own.

Nobody should be allow to give raises to themselves, perks have to quit. These individual have to understand how we are living.

What other job in the world do you leave after a short time and have full pay, full medical, and all the other free stuff that comes with just being elected? It's bull…. and its about time the public said enough. Change it all now and no 'grandfathering in' if you already have the perks. It ends for all of them…Past and present.

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